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Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are reciprocally oriented. Part of the effect can be explained by a false consensus...
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Islamic perspectives on leadership: a model
Ali, Abbas J. - In: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern … 2 (2009) June, pp. 160-180
Purpose – The purpose of this research is to address the notion of leadership in Muslim countries. It seeks to develop … a model for understanding leadership in Islamic culture and discusses the factors which give rise to two types of … leadership: the prophetic and caliphate. Design/methodology/approach – The article briefly surveys the socio-economic and …
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Why FDI? An Empirical Assessment Based on Contractual Incompleteness and Dissipation of Intangible Assets
Casaburi, Lorenzo; Gattai, Valeria - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2009
This paper makes an empirical assessment of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), by analysing the boundaries of a large sample of Italian Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Firm level data from the eighth and the ninth Capitalia Surveys on Manufacturing Firms, AIDA and Centrale dei Bilanci is...
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The European Union in global environmental governance: Leadership in the making?
Vogler, John; Stephan, Hannes - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 7 (2007) 4, pp. 389-413
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The Netherlands in the UNFCCC Process –Leadership between Ambition and Reality
Andersson, Magnus; Mol, Arthur - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 2 (2002) 1, pp. 49-68
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965725
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Simultaneous Equation Model based on the generalized maximum entropy for studying the effect of management factors on enterprise performance
Ciavolino, E.; Dahlgaard, J. J. - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 36 (2009) 7, pp. 801-815
The aim of this paper is to study the effect of management factors on enterprise performance, considering a survey that the University Consortium in Engineering for Quality and Innovation has led. The relationships between management factors and enterprise performance are formalized by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004966833
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What It Takes to Be a Leader: Leadership and Charisma in a Citizen-Candidate Model
Berdugo, Binyamin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyses leadership and charisma within the framework of social choice. In societies that lack formal …
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How to have results from Conversations?
Benchimol, Guy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The difficulty of emergence is not the complexity but the recursivity of its working. That is why there are so many debates to know whether structure generates strategy or strategy generates structure. In fact all we know is that networking allows conversations and that conversations help...
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Leadership by Confidence in Teams
Kobayashi, Hajime; Suehiro, Hideo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
a stable equilibrium. This result implies that leadership in teams emerges through the leader's signaling incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790158
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Why a Group Needs a Leader: Decision-making and Debate in Committees.
Dessein, Wouter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
I develop a model of group decision-making, in which a committee generates proposals and holds open discussions, but the ultimate decision is either taken by a leader (decision by authority) or by majority vote. Optimal communication processes are studied that combine both cheap talk statements...
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